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“In art and in music, I seek out and listen for honesty and realness. That’s why I’m backing Bernie Sanders for president of the United States. In politics, he is the person who is offering me the most honesty and the most realness,” Stipe said in a video interview with Rolling Stone. “Sanders takes positions on all of these issues that have [outshone] any other candidate that I’ve seen — and I have looked, believe me. I identify with him. I’m a proud liberal, but I also lean more center when it comes to policy. I get it that there are people who don’t see things exactly the way I do.”

Reed accompanied Clinton during her swing through Atlanta on Friday and repeated his assertion that Sanders has no hope at clinching the nomination. Reed guaranteed Clinton that she can bank on the Peach State in her quest for the presidency, saying, “Don’t worry about Georgia.”

The Athens musician sees things differently: “”I’m a feminist. I’ve marched, supported and fought for black rights, privacy rights and LGBTQ rights. I’m deeply concerned about the environment. I’m completely freaked out by fracking,” Stipe told Rolling Stone. “Sanders takes positions on all of these issues that have [outshone] any other candidate that I’ve seen — and I have looked, believe me.”

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i am a life long democrat and not a socialist but I will NOT be voting for Hillary. She is a fake who blows with the wind pandering to whose ever vote she needs. Ill take my chances and vote for a real person with character who at least I can believe. Go Bernie!!

@darryl hill Nut based on what? I present to you the GOP field. A lying Canadian wanna be televangelist, A fraudulent Cuban immigration thief, a navel orange faced gold comb over hair bad TV Host carnival barker, a brain dead brain surgeon selling books and that other guy.

@Champagnevelvet Sure, the Plantation vote is all the African American voters that are slaved to the Democratic Party regardless of the lack of progress for the Black community under Democratic leadership ( Mayor Reed and several before him, John Lewis, David Scott and other Black Congressman ) get the picture ?

@Infraredguy@Champagnevelvet speak for yourself. I prefer the socialist trying to give the country ideas at a time when the GOP majority hasn't done a f-ing thing for the country the last six years. At least Sanders creates a conversation on what matters. That's more than I can say about Rodham-Clinton and that bundle of creeps on the right.

How
ironic it is that the current Mayor of the birth city of Martin Luther King is
supporting a presidential candidate that was once a Goldwater Girl.
Doctor King said that Barry Goldwater was one of the most dangerous men
in America; Goldwater was a vocal opponent of all of the principles of the
civil rights movement. The candidate Mayor Reed is supporting along with
her husband has done more harm to African Americans than all of slavery, Jim
Crow laws, and persistent racism. More African Americans are in jail and
suffer under more extreme poverty because of the policies of Bill and Hillary
Clinton. Also, the Clintons have used race to their benefit whenever it
was politically convenient. Bill Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas
approved the execution of a mentally ill Black to aid his reelection, as
president he signed into law a so-called welfare reform that greatly increased
poverty and at the act’s signing in to law he had a sole Black woman on stage
just for the symbolism, enacted a crime bill that has resulted in putting more
African American in prison than at any other time in history, supported the
deregulation of Wall Street one of whose effects was the devastation of the
majority of the wealth that people of color possessed, and finally and one of
the most destructive policies that has negatively effected African Americans
was the NAFTA that resulted in the loss of jobs on a scale near seen before the
enactment of this particular trade agreement under Bill Clinton.

One
final thing that needs to be mentioned, recently Hillary has begun to wrap
herself in the flag of President Obama; however, this has not always been the
case.As a matter of fact when she
thought that it was politically advantageous, she joined with the Republicans
in Congress in showing the most extreme disrespect of this president by writing
a “love letter to Israel” in the context of the Congressional Republicans
having invited Prime Minister Netanyahu to speak at a joint session of Congress
without coordinating it with the White House which was without precedence.The president refused to meet with
Netanyahu on principle; yet, in Hillary’s love letter she stated that she would
invite Netanyahu to the White House within one month of being elected
president.This was a not so
obvious slap at the president and a sign of utter disrespect to his office.

@Tommy Hawk@Richard Whetstone Rodham-Clinton panders and the only reason she's getting votes from black folks is they feel bad for dropping her in 2008. I don't feel bad she's has too much baggage for even the devil himself. I voted for Sanders. I like the conversation he's started. Richard is right she's dangerous and very calculating. Not a good mixture for the country.

She had 20 years to apologize for the "super predator" remark still has not apologized. She changed her name on a number of occasions to help herself and Bill. Sorry folks I'm just not the easy to persuade. I prefer Bernie's stump speech. He may not win but we are going to have a conversation about some real issues as long as he's around.

@Richard Whetstone exactly she supported Goldwater ! She changes her views and her stump speeches to fit her ratings. need the african american voter? call in all her tv personalities to bombard us with the same crap speech about how she is THEIR candidate and how SHE has experience. BLLLLLLAHHHHH. she lost me this year..... she stands for NOTHING. Hey Hillary, Get hell ready for me .... because YOU ARENT GETTING THIS WOMAN"S VOTE>....

Why does anybody care what or who Michael Stipe thinks about politics? Hes an American citizen with the same rights as anybody else. One vote one person. You might as well write 300 million articles for each one of us.